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EDITO RIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL FEATUPES EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Stad Society News Part 2—20 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15 1925. LOCAL “JOINER” DECIDES NOT TO JOIN BOLSHEVIKI Finds W ashington Branch : Given to Long Speeches Without Sick or Funeral RY BEN McKELWAY. | Tsadore X.| a fixer of automo-| s, “T don't aim to join this new Bolshevik soclety that you see so much talk &bout in the papers these days. “Not,” he continued as he lifted up the hood, spat on his gloves and #ave the carbureter a terrible blow with his hammer, *“that T don't be lll'l\'s in jolning things as a general ru But,” he added as he took out his pliers and carefully bent the gas line into a knot, “I make it a rule to see what I am going to get out of what I join. “Now I been a member of a lot of things off and on during my life. I am a Elk and a Red Man, a Wood- man of the World and & Maccabee. Besides being a Mason, I jotned up With the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Aréblc Order of the Mystic Shrine. 7 was sounded out nct long ago on {oining the Kluxers, but a fellow don't have to tell evevything he's a member of and besides that I been having quite a good tyme lately down to the Young Men's \ebrew Association. “I always make it a point. though, to do a little quiet looking around first before I sign up with anybody &nd maybe that is because I am, as my Aunt Sallie always said, of a pernickety nature. Some of my mem- berships gives me a button, a badge, ® banquet or a boat rid rom some of the others I get a grip and a pass word. 1 got a fez to home and a mighty snappy swo I can go on 2 automobile tour with one of my lodges in the Summer time, and when 1 die I got it down on paper that I get a good burfal with three limousines ranteed. Careful of What He Joins. I alwavs been a joiner, you might fay, but I heen careful about what I loins. So the other evening when a Young fellow handed me a ticket that read ‘The eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution will be celebrated by the Workers' Party Local, District of Columbia, at 8 p.an. at the Play- house, 1814 N street northwest.” I thought to myself as maybe I had missed something which I might join up with. So I put on a collar and goes around to the Playhouse. v at_the door took my ticket and ‘Eet will be 25 cents blease, these ticket, and being no piker I give him 2 bits and passed {nside. ‘As I was golng in the door he called me ‘comrade’ and I turned quick and tried him on a half a dozen high signs, but he didn't savvy none of them so I let him be and got my- Belf a seat. It was after 8 o'clock und the place was pretty well filled. The card had said it was the ‘Work- ers’ Party, D. C. Local, that was giv- 1ing the party so I looked around at the men and women sitting in the place as I am a worker, too, but I couldn’t swear as there was any workers in that gang. What I call a worker Is a man with maybe his finger nafls not so clean and his hands rough but a good face and head between his shoulders and enough backbone (o hold 'em up. If there was any workers in this bunch they hadn't showed up vet. The most of the ladies and gentlemen were either the kind that comes here and s ‘Oh what is the - with my it won't run' 1 look I 1d there ain’t any gas In their tanks, else ther was men and women like hear cel- 0 cents v 10" cents’ down on “venth street. ‘Up in the front of the room they was some noisy kids, some of them dressed in red shirts and others dolled up like ‘Liberty’ and ‘Democracy’ and the like judgin' from the signs they had hung around their necks. I didn’t tke the looks of the guy that v sitting next to me hecause he didn't ave any forehead or any chin, only lot of upper front teeth. and 1 re nembered seeing a picture In the paper one time that looked like him nnd over it there was some writing that sald ‘Threw Bomb’' so I eas over a coupie of seats and ot resdy to listen to the man just getting up on the stage. They Sing Internationale. “This fellow they called ‘Comrade $hairman’ whenever they spoke to him and he opened up the meeting by saving ‘De men In de back of de hall ill blease come front and be zeated’ and when the place was quiet he id, ‘Comrades and friends we have ithered here dese cvening to zele- te de eight anniversary of de re on in Russia. Dis is de worke barty local D. C. which is a bart of de workers: barty of de United States, which is de United < section of de Communist Internationale. We viil now stand and sing de Interna. fonale.’ Well, everyhody stood up and about en or twelve people knew the words nd they velled. but none of them ould touch the comrade chairman be cause he was some shouter and he had the advantage hecause he knew the une. “After th over comrade chair man said a little comrade whose name I do not know and aldn't say it if T did would now play a selection on his ~violin. He did it and the less said mbout that the better, because when & violin is old and tuned and some- hody is on the bow end that knows how to work it, there ain’t no sweeter music, but otherwise. as I said, the Jess said about it the better. Amnother | little comrade female, was then called | *o the stand and said a piece of poetry, | but she said it so fast I couldn’t | Jjust what she was talking about ex “ept that Mike, a Catholic, and Ik ‘ a Jew, have been fighting each oth ever since the world began and the yeason {s that the biz fat capltalists have been sitting back and laughing | at them and keeping them fighting | hecause they don't want Ike and Mike | ever to get together, for if they did, | it would the dickens to pay for the big fat capitalist, or something like | that. I don’t know iwhether that's| mo, because I seen a Jew and a Irish-| man fight and a cop come along and | waid ‘Beat it, youse guys, or I'll run the both of ve in,’ and the cops, ac- cording to one comrade who said a plece, is only tools of capitallsm, so if the capitalists didn’t want Ike and Mike to get ‘ogether, why did their tools stop them from fighing?” Little Girl Scared. Mr. Isadore Kelly paused a moment to take out a_bandana and wipe the perspiration from his tace before chipping the porcelain carefully off two spark plugs. Then he continued: “The next speaker on the program wvas & Mttle girl who was so scared vhen she got up to say her piece that | shie missed now and then like a motor Benefits. with two cylinders on the bum, but she managed to get over the idea that all imperialistic government must go. especially England. and these imperi- listic governments are not only afraid of the Soviet government in Russia but they are jealous as all out doo: of Russla because Russta is them such a good example. She didn't mention this country, but by the gen eral tone of her remarks, as you might | say, T wouldn't bs surprised if she didn't feel sort of worrled about this government 100. hen a kid got up and bawled out France for fair, and what he sald about that countr was in the A. E. F. istice us guys used to say some un kind things about the prices them frogs w for vin blanc, but we never went that far, and this was only a kid talking. “Then still another kid got up and sald a piece about the people of Ger- many getting ground under the heel of this guy Von Hindenburg, but she seemed to hold out some hope for Germany ay she said the Soviet would soon get things (o running to suit the folks in Germany. ““Then another youn said a plece about Chi ter got up and a, the idea being that China was getting eaten up | by the other imperialistic nations, and from the way she stuttered when she was saying that plece she dldn't know any more about what she was talking about than I did when I was a kid and | teacher used 1o make me say a plece about ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus.’ “Well, T thought all the kids had been used up by this time, but, by George, a whole flock of them got up on that stage the next time and held what they call a pageant. The two main kids was dressed in red shirts, and the audience got excited and began to clap. One of the main kids had a scythe and the other a hammer, stood facing each other and crossed the scythe and the hammer, while the other kids around them. Then a little female comrade sald a long piece Russia, but her gas line was choked and she couldn't be said to be hittin’ on all six all the way through. Maybe I'm dumb, but I'll be darned if I could figure out just what she was talking about. “This was followed by a comrade g1r] who got up and sald a plece about | Ing to lighten the ship by flinging the |tion of the Copernician letting the kiddies join order of the workers part would be taught to think ourselves and learn to think, although others have no thought of the future, sald this comrade, ‘so every worker between 14 and should Jjoin so young children will not be the junior she sald, and I'll have to look into this as 1 got a young boy Who has been hanging around the Y. M. C. A. a lot lately. Had Seen Better Singing. “Then there was more entertain ment when a young man and a young lady got up on the stage and s Personally I didn’t think much of it, because the man was the kind of a fellow I want to throw a plate at even when not singing, and although I ain’t | It would be insincere to pretend that : what vou call a critic of good music' I cannot Imagine a conflict between | prove I seen better singing in especlally over the radio. “It was gettin’ to be goshawful late this time and the speakin’ hadn't sven begun vet, the part before being sere child’s play, you might say, but comrade chalrman now introduced a fellow who he said had Leen active in circles for nigh on 20 years, hile I guess he may have been in circles alright, I never seen him up at the A. F. of L. or down to the Central Labor Union either. “He started out like thie “ ‘Mourn not the dead “I began to squirm, because he had a awful solemn. deep voice. ‘Then he shot over another one. Mourn not those priconers now ving behind steel hars, or sitting in valled cells, victims of ‘capitalism.’ “Well, 1 began to think we got to meurn somebody, €0 let's have it. “““Rather mour all and are too weak, too cowardly, too craven, to do anything about it." my time, kneeled down | about | | 1 vhere they | modernists, or broad churchmen. or|ly the astronomers of the time who We develop i | misled | wait until the church decides before | decide at once whether or not Dr. s they are in other organizations, | I commit myself to accepting any the- | i !and beautiful common sense is one of | | { those who see it | “I felt conspicuous, because I hadn’t ' done anything about it and didn’t in- tend to, but then I forgot about it and listened to this guy rave on. One thing he sald that made me think.| enced a gratifying improvement in He sald this was a small gathering here tonight, considering all the work- ers there are in Washington, but there | tion of export trade, tariff reforms were small gatherings in Russla 25 vears ago, too. His idea was, I reckon, that we are in the same fix they was in Russia 25 year ings will grow, as it were. off with something like ‘vours for a cleaner and better soclety’ and agreed. on looking about. that there was something to that, but he wasn't done, because he asked for w cont hution to keep some newspaper in Chicago on its feet. This newspaper now '’ tottering, he said, and had its eyes on Washington tonight, waiting for some cash. All the other pape: were merely ‘organs for the dissemina. tion of misinformation, he said, so he asked brightly how man there was in the audience. He signed ed how many $5 bills there was, and there was two of them. Then he came down to $1 bills and asked about | Hafti was far too dependent upon | them, and there was a few more. Then they passed the hat and got a flock of nickels and dimes and quar- tel amounting in all, I should say, to maybe $20.53, judging from the Jooks of the Interlor of the hat as it| passed by me. Talked on Russia. “The last speaker on the program was the big gun, and he was intro- duced as a fellow who had thus far | got away every time the rlot call sounded, ending up In Mexico, where he was happy for a while until ap- proached one day by a policeman who put him on board a train and took him to the border, from which he gradu- lly made his way back to New York, where he was now engaged in the good work. “He taiked along about Russia, where he had visited and said as how | the smokestacks were now beiching smoke and the wheels of industry turning and everything all hunky and the folks eating regular. “I don’t know what else he said, because I decided about that time I wouldn't join their lodge, as there was too much speaking, and I didn't get the idea of what they was kicking about anyhow, except the capitalists, which don’t bother me none. So I {left and on my way home I got to figuring about this new kind of gov- ernment they was talking about and decided it was like a automobile. You have a car you like and find they are putting new improvements on {t every_vear, and it suits you and you figure that the men that's making it must know how because they been tal it « boug tiue, Foen some U ! £0. so the gather- | 1|the Pan-American Union. | i 0 {The state has punctually and scru s | lously mat all its fnancial obliga. | bills being among those present, he | LIOME. 1 | globe in a paper boat as cir etting | §lobe In @ paper boat as hope to {up the known {appear positively. to conflict with the the pleasures of cotemporary exist-!ihe church is continually being jus- ence, ng. | understand how I had managed | cash balance is currently maintained, | tobacco and sisal, and it is belleved UNITED EUROPE IS HOPE OF NATIONS FOR RECOVERY Locarno Example of Trend and Idea of Union of States Is More Than Dream. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. URING the past twelve years the world has known two su- preme surprises. The World | War came upon it suddenly | and took it completely by | surprise. So absolute was the sur- prise that it was literally true that the guns were golng off before there was a real appreclation of the hope- less gravity of the pre-war crisis. . A little more than four vears later, the collapse of German military power and the consequent surrender of ‘the Central Powers came with such un expected suddenness that again the world was taken by surprise and the victorfous nations, whose efforts had been so lately concentrated on the desperate effort to avold the defeats which were threatened by the victories in the opening phases of the campaign of 1918, were totally unprepared to arrange the settlement which was necessary. Now, unless every sign falls we ore on the edge of a new surprise. While our attention is still concentrated upon the disputes over the Locarno Pact in the German Reichstag, while the long succession of disappointments of the terrible post-war years has led us to accept the concaption of 2 disor- ganized, quarreliing and chaotic Fu- rope, the fact is that a change as far reaching as that of October, 1918, or of July, 1914, is at hand. Witness the Resolve. WHAT IT MEANS TO ME ARTICLE 1II BY COMPTON MACKENZIE Author of “Carnival,” “The Passionate Elopement,” “Sinster Street,”” Etc. [ iy To my eyes, which most people would consider as ineffective as stained-gla windows for clarity of vision, the for- mation of the League of Nations is no better than a half-hearted compromise with the ideals of Catholiclsm—a typ- ist's dream of the holy Roman em- pire, for politiclans a new hypocrisy, for diplomats a sitting of addled eggs. L T would have been a much easier task for me to write about my veligion if T could have invented a religion of my own to expound, but T am Catholle, and a man might well try to circumnavigate the {dramatic as to distract ali attentio | from anything but the immediate cir cumstances. It has not been possible to take an account of stock, to esti mate present values, because the whole structure still remained efthe in flames or threatened by nelghbo ing conflagration. Neverthelsss one must now perceive that for the first time there is at hand there has perhaps arrived, an oppor tunity for Europe to estimate the situation to which it has come with & degree of calmness. With the excep tion of Russla every natfon has e; caped from the immediate menace of Bolshevism. Order in the broadest sen of the word is not immedtat ened by powerful element great state. Allowing for eve: flcation—and they have been ma and profound—it is still true that t social and economic system of Europe has come through the fire intact It is equally true that the ve gravity of the manifold dangers which have threatened the several states has produced at last a state of mind which s itself a2 guarantee against fmmediate repetition of the worl strophe. There is not power in Europe which does not kno that any new 1 considerable now or in the next generation, would wreck not merely or mainly the fo eign influence and prestige remaining to Europe, i ould in all hun probability e soctal and nomic consequences the extent horror of which could not gerated cumseribe the Catholic faith withir thousand words. Fortunate! however, the Catholic Church s not at the mercy of an in- dividual apologist. Her dogmas rest upon something firmer than the shift- ing sands of scientific theories. In no Galilean cave will any enthuslastic voung palaeontologist find the skull of Jesus Christ, and thereby make it advisable for theologians to change the date of the Incagnation by a trifle | of 20,000 yea Let me hasten to add that I am not presuming to sneer at sclence. An cbscurantist attitude to sclence is as epulsive as u smoking lamp. The more T devote my reason to the study Had I the strength of mind to di- vorce myself -entirely from the pres- {ent, T might find my salvation in the study of mathematics, my worship in |listening to the music of Bach and | my pleasure in reading the poetry of Lucretius. As it is incapable of such a starry remoteness, I find jn the Cath- olic faith that common humanity which fortifies me against the horrors of a twentieth-century existence. Did I prossess the requistte credulity I might | seek consolation and assurance in | eptritualism, but my reason revolts | 9F siafuze snl tolless Hsnarguiles iy less from a belief in the resurrection emotion to the contemplation of art, . 4 i 2 , [ of the body than from a bellef in ecto- the more firmly do I belleve in what | Betasn: and it TRaA s foroy & ooet the curfously feeble terminology of | R it Tor myseilattoriatats metaphysics call the absolute, and the | —an endless rat-tatting on easily ma- more clearly do I percelve that only | e i e e e within the Catholic Church can I hope | be granted a certain faith in my ul- dimly to apprehend that absolute. | | timate obliteration: ey i | Al that humanity can believe, all It is encouraging, for instance, to | | that humanity can hope, all that hu- read in Dr. Jeans' lecture to the Royai | { manity can love I find in Catholicism. Soclety on February 15, 1974, that our | lGas inas bave beeh oo iatIG abun sun is situated fairly near the center | I3 iyt notue ot bwar That wo 0o of the 1,500 miliion stars that make [ not yet apprehond what & much more . | tremendous spiritual contest s pre- After the scorn that has been ex- paring. It may be that the historian pended on the folly of medieval man | Pt iy in supposing that he was the center of ioites - et o or ths Toieh e the universe and that his earth was | e e e something quite definitely extraordi- | e e e e CaE nary, the tidal theory of cosmogony T eir = e tite s Aranoy advanced by Dr. Jeans restores some e of my anthropocentric complacency. | L e e T ol cainppin i e | |from that immense struggle already unassailable; vet belief in it paradoxi-| | looming. cally requires an effort of faith in the | i improbable, even more severe than the | | effort demanded for the improbable |ulate for others. The classic instance | litical aspact of Catholicism. Wehear| It will be observed that hitherto I fact of the fncarnation. I am not try- | of apparent fallibility is the condemna- | a great deal about the wickedness of | have not used the word Christianity tem, but it | the church in the past, and our flesh | in this article. That is because I be- g0 overboard after the fashion of | must be remembered that it was real- | IS Invited to creep at the thought of lieve that within a comparatively | | priesteraft. Well, a decent anti-cleri- short time Catholicism and Christian- calism is not unbecoming to a Cath-|{ty will once more mean the same | olic, and few of us are prepared to|thing. In that great spiritual strug claim too much for the priesthood, | gle even an Ulsterman may have to {which, it may be remarked, is only a | beat his drum In honor of the Pope ! small part of the church. if he wants to drive ant{-Christ out| * % ok % | of Ulater. * 0 doubt in the Middle Ages the| FPutting on one side those intima- tyranny of the priests was dangerous tons of divinity that no man should | and unpleasant. Yet I venture to|be expected to proclalm thus casual- think that the tyranny of lawyers, by | lv as it were, I am a Christian be- which it was replaced, was equally cause without Christianity I should | dangerous and unpleasant, and I am |be 5o much perplexed by the riddle | not sure that the tyranny of doclors}(‘f life that I could not wait another | with which we are now threatened | moment to solve it. I am a Catholic will not be the most dangerous and |bscause only in Catholicism does my | unpleasant of all. I am certainly pre- | skeptical mind percelve a ratfonal | | The outstanding fact in the Euro- pean situation today is that the deter- mination of the masses of the na- tions, of the people, of the business interests, of every influential element t0 arrive at a final adjustment of those difficulties which bar the way to the resumption of normal life, of ordinary intercourse, constitutes an inescapable imperative to the statesmen, politi- clans and pofltical parties The documents which were fnitialled at Locarno and will presently be ra fled by every government and parlia ment do not represent the material out of which peace is to be made, they witness the fact that the nations concerned are resolved to make peace. We are. in my judgment, on the eve of a very long perfod of peace in Europe, peace so far as the great powers are concerned, not because gaurantee treaties were made at Lo- carno, but because there exists in rope a state of mind, of which Locarno is but one and not necessarily the most fmportant manifestation. When the formal ratifications of the Locarno pacts take place—and if there are delays and maneuvres In the domestic politics of any countries, notably Germany, these will nelther long postpone nor materially interfere with the ratification—nothing is more certain than that wewshall see swift and far-reaching disclosures of the consequences of the arrival of Europe at what must be regarded as & rational and normal state of mind. On Eve of New Era. We are, of this it seems to me there can be no question. on the eve of a new period in European history, a new n urope has been on the edge of a complete collapse and there remains a lot bellef that escape is assured. Not only is | Europe a favorite subject cussion, but be Justified The Will to Live. Nevertheless it is unmi; there has been increasin, ed in the past two or be described Notwithsian separate nati COMPTON MACKENZIE. P that precisely s might be the war or sist, th avenue of escape wer T arrive at any new ordering It {8 manifest to the Frenchr the German, it to the more detac that it was impossible to I disorganization which the produced, but that even the only less complete dis: whatever they choose to call them- |were When the theories of science | s0 urgent and unanimous support of the Ptolemalc A parallel case of the present would be to ask the church to in ves. “eir sys- tem, day teachings of the church I prefer to ans’ tidal cosmogony has super- ¢ |seded the celestial mechanics of La ory, be it never so attractive. * koK ok Dear wise Ray Lankester, commun- | n with whose profound knowledge ¥ ok * The strength of the chain is its | weakest link, and the conservatism of Not so n statesmans leadership, events and once told me that he could not | tifieq 80 | ge ompletely to surrender my individual |t judgment as to profess Catholicism. | c Will any man of commen e who has studied the fragmen- history of mankind blame the fon of the church in always being nore ready to condemn than to ap- Jet it be remembered that she has been equally slow to approve the novelties of theological specula- The theory of the Immaculate Conception took over 800 years to be- come a dogma, and though the As- After all, the church allows the in- sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary dividual mind @ much greater liberty is celebrated as one of the major of speculation than is generaly sup-|feats, bellef in it as a historical fact posed. What she does not allow is!is stfll no more thay a pious opinfon. any attempt by the individual to spec. { To touch for a moment on the po- principl avenue of escape the very least from a position tive impotence, must come tk degree of co-operation between pecples divided by centuries of strife and ir flamed by the recent years of bitter conflict Because of the necessity to fight i Europe, Britain has been obliged surrender her position as the supreme naval power. to re S the financial supremacy has enjoyed for so many cer She has been obliged to take co zance of a rising spirit in her r tolonies and India which threate: the very greatness of her imper structure. And the similar experfence of the other Luropean natlons point to the same inescapable mor my reason and the authority of the church. That may develop at any mo- ment. All 1 can affirm now is that my reason has not vet been called upon to struggle with my faith. tion \ url Exports Diversified, Tariff Reformed, Port Facilities Improved and Economic State of Republic Is Far Above Former Status. Can Still Recover. for the past 25 years particularly for the past dozer 8, the question has been obvious sed—the doubla question—whethe: Europe could ever escape from the doom which her conflicting national rivalries had imposed upon her. and whether in any event she could escape in time to save herself from the wor: of the misfortunes which the lo vears of war and chaos had inflictec upon her. Broadly speaking, we have watched Europe first passing throu, the acute cr of a moral diseass and then through the period when was stiil blematical whether, the disease having been gurvived, the patient could still recover from the weakness resulting. ut one thing was always certair if Europe were able to survive bot) the disease and the weakness follov ing, it would be condemned to abar dort precisely those habits of life whick had laid it low. In a word, if the & could come when the several Europear peoples arrived at a situation wher i m and te om the me ng immed ion, some form of European co-operation an combinatlon was inevitable. And p: cisely that situation has now come. In the larger sense, at the close of a quarter of a_century of violent an tagonism the <European peoples find themselves facing a condition of approximate financial bankruptey crushed not alone under the burdens of domestic but foreign debt. Thes have not merely in many cases lost the political bases of their powe: abroad, but nations which were nev inder ~ political control have, whila Zurope manufactured destruction seen compelled to create their own ndustries. Again America has § vaded these markets with a compe tition based upon mass production which in many lines is hardly to be surmounted, certainly not Ly indi vidual national endeavor. Return of Sanity. One can, I think, safely reckon o the return of sanity {n Europe. It is safe to assume henceforth for an fir definite period that we have not to calculate upon the basis of Franco German or Anglo-German conflict but what is equally apparent is that even this tremendous gain is not enough. Furope freed from the im mediate handicaps incident 1o im minent conflict cannot regain her lost ground. No European nation alone possesses all or anything like enough material or other resources to conduct single handed its campaign to regain lost markets. Germany without jron and France without coal, Italy with vast labor supply but no raw materfal is in no positior to_enter the struggle. Now and BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. No utterances of a forelgn Am- bassador in the United States for many a day have attracted the atten- tion aroused by the recent Middle Western speeches of Sir Esme Howard. The British envoy's frank and cordlal advocacy of a close Anglo- American understanding in world af- fairs, especlally on Far Eastern ques- tions, is undoubtedly of Immense sig- nificance. Prior to his trip to Mis- sourf, where Sir Esme delivered a series of addresses. he paid two sep- arate visits to the White House. One, to which no particular importance need be attached. was for the pur- pose of Introducing Arthur Hender- eon, M. P., a former British cabinet minister. Howard's other call was of considerably more moment. It was made for the purpose of conveying to President Coolidge the appreciation of the British government of the ‘“‘ap- proval” which the United States Gov- ernment had bestowed upon the Lo- carno security pacts. There can be little question but that the British Ambassador delivered this unusual message with the full assent, if not at the direct instigation, of his gov- ernment. Peace in Far East. The most suggestive statements of the British envoy In his western talks related to International policy |in the Far East. Speaking at Kan- sas City on November 11, Sir Esme Howard said: “If England and the dominions, on the one side, and this great Republic on the other, can continué to stand shoulder to shoulder to promote peace and_prosperity in the Far East by fair play and justice and frank and open dealing with the two great Far Eastern nations, China and Japan, we shall, I doubt not, accomplish there what I sincerely hope France and Germany and the other signatories of the Locarno treaties will et last ac- cor:plish in Europe—a just and en- during peace.” Previous to that observation, Howard explained that “working to- gether, England and America, as we are actually doing, can set China on her legs again and free her, by our friendly assistance, from Communist domination.” Japan has the liveliest interest in the British diplomat's implied thought that the future of the Far Fast rests primarily on the laps of America and the British Empire. The Japanese consider that they are very vital factors, indeed, both In the present and in the future of far eastern affairs. They have never Jiked suggestions that the two Kuge W ic of Haitl has experi-| trative regulations. Thoroughgolng S e e tariff revision was, therefore, one of the prime requisites for enlarged commercial relations with the rest of the world, Dr. Cumberland empha- sizes Such a revision has now been accomplished and Is being studied. As on as the new tarift goes into eftect it should haye a stimulating influ- enca upon commercial operations, he believes. Anticipating the growing com- mere plans have heen made for substantial improvements in the fa- ities at the various ports, and funds have been set aside for these improvements. Already establish- ment of lighthouses and buoys has facilitated nav.gation, and construc- tion of adequate iwharves, ware- | houses and other factlitles for han- dling forelgn and coastwise commerce , should prove of the utmost value to he business community. Summarizing the situation, Dr. Cumbes d finds that fromn every point of view the finances and com- merce of Haitl may be regarded as in a prosperous condition and as hav- lish-speaking commonwealths, with their overwhelming joint sea power, might one day establish an over- lordship of the Pacific and in the Orient. If there is to be any such combination, Japan frankly desires to be in it, and not outside of it. Nippon says she wants a triple entente cordiale that shall embrace America, Britain and herself. She desires it not only for prestige pur- poses, but for protective purposes. Japan Fearful of Russia. It will surprise most Americans to hear that the Japanese are at this moment very deeply concerned over the possibility of another war with Russia. They see the “Bear,” this time in the red garb of the Soviet, stealthily and steadily pawing his way across China to the doors of Japan. Only this week the American Government learned authoritatively that Gen. Feng Yu-Hslang, with the backing of Russie, aims to take possession of Tientsin, the great port which is the base of American mili- tary and naval activities in China, Possession of Tientsin would give Ru & port on the Pacific. It would indeninify her for the loss of Port Arthur !n the unsuccessful war with Japan 21 years ago. ‘Washing- ton also hears—that, with Chinese connivance, Russtan troops are being stationed in various parts of China, In the day of another reckoning with Russia, Japan longs for the moral, if not the military and naval, support of Great Britain and America, and particularly, her spokesmen say, for the United States’ sympathy. One of. the developments that conjure up lanother Russian peril for the Japanese is the brazen activities of the Soviet government in pushing the Chines Eastern Rallway, which it controls, across Asia to the borders of Mongolia. Thess maneuvers, Japan is persuaded, are primarily military in intent. No Bid for Alliance. Sir Esme Howard, of course, is t brilliant a diplomatist and know: hol‘: United States too well to propose an; thing savoring of an English-speaking alliance. But he is outspoken in his purpose to advocate an exceedingly intimate rapprochement between his empire and our republic. Our mighty influence as & world power was never 80 fully recognized in London as it is today. Uncle Sam was alreagy out. btilding John Bull at —an event unparalleled in history—when we re- nounced our capaocity to become ‘“‘ruler of the waves” at the Washington ar- mament conference. In effect, we for- bade Britain ever to build a stronger Paged its economic condition during the last three years, and with diversifica- and port and navigation improve ments, larger forelgn commerce is to be expected. according to Dr. W. W. Cumberland, financial adviser- zeneral receiver of Maitl, in an article in the November bulletin of Every section of the Republic has shared in the commercial expansion. There has been a decided {ncrea in internal revenue. Public funds have been most effectively used for productive public works, publle health and encouragement of agri- culture. A substantial unobllgated | l } thus insuring a high credit rating. their sit Trade Is Diversified. In the past the economic life of e “'Za"aefi{i.,c“,?,"‘,’éil“.'f.“’ s | Ing shown conststent and decided im- Plans, O versifylng the export | Provement over the past few years. :"&‘e n;mrl(culu.rly in connection with | Commerce is flourishing and there is c’:nofi and sugar. Promising experi- [ a1 ei(clesshof exgmm Soxes imports. ments have also been instituted, he | Recelnts have been large, and ex: in_ the production of | enditures have been maintained well points out, within receipts. ~Public funds have been devoted to constructive pur- poses and waste has been reduced to @ minimum. The public debt has been completely funded. all arrears of interest and amortization have been liquidated, and interest and amorti- zatlon payments have even been made by anticipation in order to ef- fect substantial savings. “Hait! has every reason to be proud of it finan- cial position and merely needs to continue its present course,” Dr. Cumberland concludes. Italian Churchmen Fighting “Undress” that these and other products will before long assist In stabllizing the commercial structure of Haiti. ¥ For many years the commercial life of that country has been impeded by a badly constructed taviff, to- gether _with _inconvenient adminis- comes along and tries to sell you a new make of automobile. You hear everybody knocking it. and some say it's no good and some say it Is ail ijght. But vou go ahead and stick to the car you know about, because you are satisflied and know It sults you, and if anybody wants to buy the new car, why let 'em go ahead and buy it. but that is no reason why they should take away your car which ou. B R 'ss for these capitalists they are talking about. the more of them that come around here with their cars broke the better I like it. Now as tor your car, you need a new car- bureter, as you see this old one is all dented where somebody hit it with a hammer. Then you better have a new gas line, because it looks like your 0ld one has been tied in a knot. Then you'll have to get some. spark plugs because these are all chipped up. The | with bare or scarcely veiled arms. Bill will be $45, and you can have your | Hence the sextons have lately become car tomorrow afternoon at § e'clock. ' strict In thelr efforts to have the pro- 4 jhank you, si seripitons ol g Fope chayed, In Italy the churchmen’s crusade against extreme feminine fashions is very active. Many bishops are busy with the question, giving advice and Injunctions to the priests. The patri- arch of Venice has always been one of the most intransigeant in this re- gard. Recently the Pope has condemned the appearance of women in churches unpretentlous substitute. | leves ardently {s bound to disbelleve | # imaraly T tthe fons eael ot Alone the church preserved her in-lgoe verinion. of its very existence at home. {in the economic and financial world. | practically every country. : to Europe has been profoundly modi- pean control and in one way or an- to be abandoned, in Morocco where dentally involved bringing Africa and A citizen of Europe, if one can ing years which had seen the enor of former European colony, might { abroad was being dissipated, European to be carried on to save domestic drama have been inevitably lost In I see no hope for the ture of | with equal! ardor; and if I did not| - ‘ i = oLy ven ye o hick Western civilization unless it rexurns | pelieve and disbelleve With a deep | nave solmen oo, ncenmhic tegrity durlng that mundane epilepsy. | 3 | As a consequence of this quarter of > Spoonty (GOnTREht 1835 a “century of International anarchy, o - - S v - Q HAITT’S CONDITION IS IMPROVING, |SPEECH BY BRITISH AMBASSADOR ]n has not aione lost its own predomi- | nance but it has mortgaged its future In addition, while the economic and ! financial domination has passed from fied. China, India, Irac, Syria and Turkey have given unmistakable evi- other to assert not alone equality but independence. France and Spain are engaged in a desperate battle with the Rifflans. { Asfatic as well as American troops to Europe, have established America in imagine such an individual, who, fol- lowing the example of Rip Van Winkle, mous expansion of European paower and Influence abroad, the conques easily find it impossible to identify any old landmarks in the New World. attention was concentrated upon the narrower fields in which for the mo- order. The whole capitalistic clviliza- tion has been.quite as clearly im- the maze of cotemporary circum- stances and unable to perceive the pared to maintain that the abuses of | synthesls of Christianity. If T hlveq: psychoanalysig already exceed by far |appeared bigoted and contentlous, m¥ | period when one thinks of the quar- ter of a century which has flowed e political ideals of thie Middle |conviction that T was belleving what | for a full quarter of a centry. Hurope Ages. If I had not been a papist be-| wag true and disbelleving what was | has been engaged in a civi) Wwar, 1t ng i | Europe finas itself today in a position i hardly paralleled in all history. Col = = ~ = COMMERCIALLY AND FINANCIALLY| STIRS INTEREST OF DIPLOMATS o " {10 America. Not only do all countries Plea by Sir Esme Howard for Closer Anglo-American | ©we vast sums either through gover Europe, another transformation has | taken place of hardly less grave sig. dence of the decline of European prestige and the determination of the African Independence. The same phenomenon s disclosed Asia, Africa and America have all un- mistakably changed their relation with positions, which Europe has long held in the world and undermined the had fallen into slumber in the closing days of Queen Victoria, with the mem- and partition of Africa, the founding of control in Asia, for whom the United In all the rivairies and conflicts with thelr succeeding miseries Europe ment it seemed not improbable that the domestic basis of existence would periled as the edifice of imperial domination abroad. der perspectives. The revolution.| Nor is it possible on the hasis of :rr;acmp;esp;(;xich have taken p],::g the tariff frontier« which the treaties the sum total of the abuses of the con- ’btgotry and contentiousness must be past since the death of Queen Victoria fore the war, I should have been driv-| fa]ge, I should never have allowsd my | been engaged in destroving the basts lectively rope has lost to the mental or private borrowings, b Co-operation Has Particular Significance | nificance. The relatlon of Asia and Chinese, the races of India, the Arabs at both ends of North Africa. in Egypt respect of Europe. Twenty-fiva vears whole foundation of European political orfes of the Diamond Jubilee fresh in States was only a dim and distant {has manifestly lost sight of the broader be destroyed. In Germany, in Britain, We who have watched day by day 243, Vs gealeind asid avain. on ). tessional, for which it is a useless and | forgiven, because anybody who be- | r‘gosed one age and ushered in another en into becoming one by the war. voice to be heard at this sympouium;""‘ alone of its power abroad but United States, to America, primacy access to new loans Is a necessity for in FarrEasl. 5 | Africa, as well as of the United States, and the Turks to escape from Euro. where a British protectorate has had of conflict within Europe, which inc!- influence and power abroad. mind, who recalled vividly the preced state, vaguely rising from the status perspectives. While the great power in Italy very real struggles have had the unfolding of this tremendous